We support our partner agencies that receive funding through our grant making process so they can continue providing comprehensive and coordinated services to reach those who need our support.
Our Partners
- Beat the Street Community Center
- Boys and Girls Club of Meriden
- Catholic Charities
- Child Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut
- Columbus House/Wallingford Emergency Shelter
- Connecticut Legal Services
- Girls Incorporated of Meriden
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities
- Literacy Volunteers
- Master’s Manna
- Meriden Wallingford Chrysalis
- Meriden YMCA
- Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Senior Transportation Services Inc.
- Rushford Center Inc.
- Salvation Army – Meriden
- Spanish Community of Wallingford
- Ulbrich Boys and Girls Club
- Wallingford Family YMCA
- Women and Families Center
Community Partners
- Community Health Center of Meriden
- Meriden Soup Kitchen
- New Opportunities of Greater Meriden
- Shelter NOW
Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation
The Foundation gives individuals and organizations the opportunity to support the United Way and local agencies through major, restricted, endowed, or planned gifts. These gift opportunities include bequests, trusts, pooled income funds, retirement assets, corporate gifts and/or stocks. Contact 203-235-4403 x1003 to learn more or visit their website here.
EFSP Emergency Food and Shelter Program
United Way of Meriden & Wallingford coordinates the federal Emergency Food and Shelter Program (EFSP) locally and directed $52,663 to local agencies. This funding plays an important role in meeting the most basic and emergency needs for food and shelter for individuals and families. Last year hundreds of people were helped, and a number of them were able to improve their lives as a result of the timely support they received. Emergency Food and Shelter Program recipient agencies are: